I can confirm the problem with the black background for icons in the JWM menu.
Icewm in Newyearspup looks unasable,; it was compiled with some different options than other icewm around in the forum.
Might be interesting to test, if the icewm from Puppy 4.21 looks correct.

In newyearspup, openbox (LXDE) and xfce display correctly.
So if someone finds out, that this driver is the only one giving correct screen-resolutions, he might search the forum for pets of those windowmanagers, to get a good look.

With the HD4850, the driver is very fast.
Even with xcompmgr (shadows for the windows), windows can be resized very fast. The propriatary catalyst drivers are much slower here.

But this is valid just for my own card, the reports in this thread show, that many other cards may work even worse than with Puppys default drivers.

So we can give no general recommendation to use these new drivers, you must test it on your own.

Concerning Radeonhd:
I had compiled that one, too, but just get a black screen with it, so stopped my experiments with it.

Thanks for all the reports you give us here, they may help others to find out, if this pet might solve their problems, or if it is wasted time for their cards!

Sidenote:
I made a pet of the Catalyst 9.10beta driver mentioned by Panzerpuppy.
It is based on the Ubuntu download, that has only the files for Xorg 7.4.
So this pet currently only works in Ultrapup/Newyearspup (and I think Lighthouse pup that used xorg 7.4, too), but no other puplet.
More info:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=339440#339440

Sorry to come to this thread late but only just stumbled across it while trying to find a way of running Google Earth. I have an Acer Extensa 5220 laptop with the Intel GL960/X3100 chipset which seems to cause everyone problems; even the ‘buntu boyz are struggling, which is embarrassing for them as Dell laptops with this chipset are shipped with Ubuntu! Heh, heh!

Well it runs slow (24 fps in Antinspect) and obviously only 2D but it’s usable and for the first time I can actually run GE in 4.1.2 from USB install.

Tried twice with 4.3 Final but screen and cursor are locked on reboot?

Many thanks for this great work; I look forward to the next driver release.

no acceleration then - I do not know what to do yet
I tried gray's nvidia driver which gives OpenGL working + 3D acceleration.

2. on PIV 2.6GHz FujiSiemens (scenic) + intel onboard graphic 845G chip (which support 3D acceleration according to 845G intel data sheet): on a fresh pupsave (thanks for your advices...!)
nothing with Xorg after restarting X! black screen ! I had to restart X on Vesa.
I wonder if I have missed something as that chip is rather common?

I did not try to install the other pets as they are already included in the tested pet.

3. question: is the module for intel 845G already in pup4.3.1 k2.6.30.5?

nvidia cards will not work with this pet (just in vesamode maybe), so there is no reason to install this pet.
For nvidia use:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=46686
But it will not work, if you already installed my xserver 1.6.3.
In that case, you had to start with a new savefile, as my pet (incompatible) overwrote the older xserver that is compatible with the Nvidia-pets.

Intel:

I just had the chance to test a Intel 855gm.
In newyearspup, the pet activated DRI (video-accelleration using xv), but not 3D accelleration.
The log told me, that kernel 2.6.29 or newer is needed (NYP has 2.6.28.5).
So next I tried Puppy 4.3.0, and voila - success.
See attached screenshot.

If the Intel 845 will not work, we would need to look at the log.
If X will not start, and you are dropped back to the prompt (maybe after hitting CTRL-ALT-Backspace), then type:
cp -ax /usr/X11R7/var/log/Xorg.0.log /root/
gzip /root/Xorg.0.log

Then run xorgwizard again to start X, and attach here the file /root/Xorg.0.log.gz.

I often (not always) encountered problems with the intel 855gm, when TWO chips are on the mainboard. This is the case with many notebooks with extra VGA connector.

X refused to start completely without the new pet.

This could be solved by typing:
mp /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Then scroll down and look, if you have such a line:

Code:

Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"

Comment it like this:

Code:

# Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"

In some cases, this solves it.

general (black icon backgrounds)
Also with the intel chip, the background of the icon in the JWM menu is black.
So I think an extension is missing. The log shows, that some old extensions had to be recompiled to work with the new xserver. I might look at this next week, back at home.
I also will compile the synaptics module, sorry Jemimah, just had forgotten about it

As a base I'm using Gray's BoxPup (4.12).
Graphics in my laptop is the Intel GM965. Screen res = 1280x800

So xorg has always worked for me, it was whatever came with the pupplet, I never messed with upgrading xorg before this.
After installing xorg would goes to a dead black screen. Crtl-Alt-Backspace would do nothing. Xvesa still works fine.
Since you mentioned that an uninstall would be impossible, I went into the package manager and tried to install the full 7.3 xorg package, hoping maybe that would overwrite the files from your .pet.
That didnt fix anything. lol
If I go into the xorg wizard, and go to test, the entire screen will go black and Ctrl-Alt-Backspace fails to do anything, as does Crtl-Alt-Delete, Crtl-X, Ctrl-C, and any other possible escape combo that happened to be running through my head at the time.

I followed the steps you listed for the Intel 845, and will attach the log here, however since the system locks up as soon as I test Xorg and I am forced to reboot, I assume nothing it able to be written to the log. But i'll attach it here in case something is.

If there is anything you'd like me to do, let me know. I noticed that a few days ago you have uploaded:
xorg-1.6.3-upgrade-vesa-ati-6.12.4-intel-2.8.1-mesa-7.5.1-01.pet
I have installed xorg-1.6.3-upgrade-vesa-intel-2.8.1-mesa-7.5.1-02.pet
Is there a reason you downgraded mesa? I didnt grab that package because I dont have an ATI card, If you'd like me to try that newer package on my intel system i'd be happy to test it for you *since it appears the intel stuff is still included).

EDIT:
Im thinking I may be hung up by my kernel. So I'm going to try to figure out how to update it and then see if everything works dandy. Wasnt sure if the kernel update is required for all Intel Cards or just the one tested above. But If I can figure out how to upgrade my kernel then I guess i'll find out.

Very interesting work Mark. Gives me 3D acceleration and perfect resolution in LighthousePup (4.3.1) on my Intel GL40 so thank you! 3D acceleration seems to be something that very often eludes but you've helped in the past with those problems too

Like everyone else, I've also had the problem with the black boxes in the menu using JWM. The black boxes don't show up in Icewm though.

Actually I seem to have a problem others haven't had, after I install this pet, Wine doesn't work anymore. I tried numerous different wine packages but they all fail on attempting to run a OpenGL function. I thought it might be Wine has a problem because it was compiled with a different XOrg. So, I compiled Wine myself but Wine still wouldn't run OpenGL stuff.

Not very a descriptive bug report, but I thought I'd just throw it out and see who would reply.

I've just tried Mark's Pet with my X1600 card (I think this is an R5xx chipset) in Puppy Stardust (2.6.30.5 kernel) and it gives 2 and 3D acceleration. MPlayer works with "Xv" output and full screen and "glxgears" gives over 2700fps.

I have the icon problem others have reported but I can live with that as I've "been all round the houses" trying to get this card to work fully with this Puppy and this is the only driver I have found that does it.

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